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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress who was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.



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  • Jamie Lee Curtis selling Halloween memorabilia for charity - 2 November 2012
    -Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is auctioning off items from the set of her classic horror movie Halloween to raise money for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.-The True Lies star, who made her movie debut in the 1978 film, is donating a handful of memorabilia, including the


  • Jamie Lee impersonated Tony Curtis during funeral speech - 24 October 2010
    -Jamie Lee Curtis lightened the mood as she honoured her late father Tony Curtis at his memorial service earlier this month (Oct10) by imitating his famous deep voice.- -The Some Like It Hot star passed away on 29 September (10) after suffering a cardiac arrest and more t


  • Schwarzenegger to honour True Lies co-star Curtis - 17 April 2009
    -Arnold Schwarzenegger will recognise the charitable contributions of his close friend and True Lies co-star Jamie Lee Curtis when he presents her with an award in May (09).- -The actor-turned-California governor played Curtis' secret agent husband in the 1994 action movi

Jamie Lee Curtis - what members say


  • Forever Young
  • Forever Young review by A customer from stamford
    Rated - 4.0 stars Forever Young 31 January 2011
    ...on at his best and sound perfomance from Eliijah Wood. Good old-fashioned weepy.Jamie Lee Curtis was brilliant too....   Read customer review
  • True Lies
  • True Lies review by mdridley from North Yorkshire, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars True Lies 10 December 2007
    ...comic in a completely unintentional way. Tom Arnold is amusing but too obvious, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bill Paxton each have their moments, but humour clearly isn't Cameron's str...   Read customer review
  • Halloween 2
  • Halloween 2 review by danieljparsons from Ashford
    Rated - 3.0 stars An acceptable sequel 11 May 2010
    ...Haloween 2 interestingly continues *directly* after the end of the first film (Jamie Lee Curtis, who had aged between the two films, had to wear a wig so that the continuity wo...   Read customer review

Jamie Lee Curtis - filmography


  • You Again on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Kristen Bell,  Sigourney Weaver,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: Andy Fickman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    You Again, the non-stop laugh fest, is pure fun that features an all-star cast with comedy pedigrees - including Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and the always outrageous Betty White. For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 8,632 members
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  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Piper Perabo,  Manolo Cardona,  Eugenio Derbez
    Director: Raja Gosnell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Chloe, a diamond-clad, bootie wearing Beverly Hills Chihuahua enjoys her luxurious lifestyle so much, she hardly notices Papi, a hilarious Chihuahua who happens to be crazy for Chloe. But when the most pampered pooch gets lost in Mexico with only a street-wise German Shepherd to help her find her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,333 members
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  • Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of t... on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Malek Akkad,  John Carpenter,  Lilyan Chauvin
    Director: Jeff McQueen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A documentary which explores the history of that well loved B-movie sub-genre - the slasher film. Peaking in the '80s, the slasher film is no less enjoyed today, only perhaps as a more guilty pleasure and by a less prominent group of fans. These closet gorehounds continue, nonetheless, to delight ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,048 members
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  • Christmas With The Kranks on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Julie Gonzalo,  Felicity Huffman
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After faithfully and happily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther and Nora Krank are facing the prospect of a very lonely holiday. One blustery Chicago night, Luther glances longingly at an alluring poster in a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 10,543 members
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  • Freaky Friday on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Lindsay Lohan,  Christin
    Director: Mark Waters
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A 2003 remake of the 1977 teen fantasy comedy. Disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and her uptight mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) wake up one morning to find that they are trapped in each other's bodies. In order to reclaim their own body, they must come to a greater understanding of one ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 22,845 members
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  • The Tailor of Panama on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Brendan Gleeson,  Catherine McCormack
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) is a London tailor working in Panama, offering a high-quality service to many of the richest and most powerful families in the country. One day he is approached by British secret agent Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) and asked to supply information on some of his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,322 members
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  • Virus on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  William Baldwin,  Joanna Pacula
    Director: John Bruno
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    During a savage typhoon, the crew of a salvage tug discover a seemingly deserted Russian military vessel. Everton (Donald Sutherland), the tug's captain, and Kit (Jamie Lee Curtis), his navigator, manage to restore the power, only to discover a surviving scientist who begs them to turn the power ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3,340 members
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  • Nicholas' Gift on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Gene Wexler,  Alan Bates
    Director: Robert Markowitz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A family holiday in Sicily turns into a nightmare when seven-year-old Nicholas is shot. The parents (Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates), keeping vigil at their dying son's bedside, are asked to make an almost impossible decision: to sanction the use of Nicholas' organs so that other children may be ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 141 members
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  • Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Adam Hann-Byrd,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This seventh entry in the 'Halloween' series is also the first since 'Halloween 2' to feature Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the sister and victim of psychopath Michael Myers. Apparently killed in a car crash, Laurie in fact faked her death so that she could adopt a new identity. She is now Keri ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,001 members
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  • True Lies on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Tom Arnold,  Bill Paxton
    Director: James Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 27,651 members
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  • Forever Young on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Elijah Wood,  Joe Morton
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In the 1940s a pilot (Mel Gibson), overcome with grief when his girlfriend goes into a coma, agrees to be cryogenically frozen in an experiment. He is forgotten about however, and is only woken by chance in 1992, where he has to struggle to adjust to a radically different world, while staying one ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,920 members
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  • Blue Steel on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Ron Silver,  Clancy Brown
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,395 member
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  • A Fish Called Wanda on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  John Cleese,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Charles Crichton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Archie Leach (John Cleese, who also provides the script) is a repressed English barrister charged with defending gangster George (Tom Georgeson), who has just pulled off a multi-million jewel heist with the aid of the beautiful Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), her psychotic 'brother' Otto (Kevin Kline) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 24,738 members
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  • Perfect on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Laraine Newman,  John Travolta
    Director: James Bridges
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Travolta stars as Adam Lawrence, a Rolling Stone reporter who runs into trouble while researching two separate articles. The first involves a businessman dealing in cocaine, while the second, an expose of health clubs, brings him into intimate contact with aerobics instructor Jessie (Jamie Lee ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 497 members
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  • Love Letters (1984)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Bonnie Bartlett
    Director: Amy Holden Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.
    2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 17 members
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  • Grandview U.S.A. (1984)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Patrick Swayze,  C Thomas Howell
    Director: Randal Kleiser
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6 members
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  • Trading Places on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bored, millionaire brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a wager on whether two people from opposite ends of the social spectrum can adjust successfully if they trade places. To this end, they engineer the rise of streetwise tramp Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 21,916 members
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  • Halloween 2 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Dana Carvey,  Jeffrey Kramer
    Director: Rick Rosenthal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    The first sequel to John Carpenter's seminal horror film. It is still Halloween night 1978 and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in hospital recovering from Michael Myers' near-fatal attack upon her. She now believes Myers to be dead, but somehow he comes back from the grave and the mayhem begins ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,386 members
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  • Road Games on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Stacy Keach
    Director: Richard Franklin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 307 members
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  • Terror Train (1980)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Hart Bochner,  David Copperfield
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Film editor, Roger Spottiswoode's directorial debut is a slasher-movie that takes place on a train which a college fraternity have chartered to host a New Year's fancy dress party. However, an ex-fraternity member who has a score to settle has other ideas and the students are trapped on the train ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 615 members
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  • Prom Night (1980)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Anne-Marie Martin,  Leslie Nielsen
    Director: Paul Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A masked axeman stalks the corridors of a high school, terrorising Jamie Lee Curtis, in this stalk-and-slash horror. It all happens on the anniversary of the accidental death of a young girl by four kids who have kept their guilty secret to themselves. But now the man wrongly imprisoned for the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 434 members
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  • The Fog - Blu-ray (1979)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Adrienne Barbeau,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    100 years ago at Antonio Bay, California, a ship was wrecked due to a false beaconlight, enveloped by a sinister fog. The ship's occupants return to punish the descendants of those responsible for their deaths - their arrival heralded by the fog inexorably rolling into Antonio Bay once again.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 874 members
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  • The Fog on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Adrienne Barbeau,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    100 years ago at Antonio Bay, California, a ship was wrecked due to a false beaconlight, enveloped by a sinister fog. The ship's occupants return to punish the descendants of those responsible for their deaths - their arrival heralded by the fog inexorably rolling into Antonio Bay once again.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,727 members
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  • Halloween on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  P.J. Soles
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Carpenter's highly influential modern horror/suspense film set the trend for two decades of re-makes and sequels. Six-year-old Michael Myers is confined to an insane asylum after stabbing his sexually active teenage sister to death on Halloween night 1963. Exactly fifteen years later Michael ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 13,460 members
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  • Halloween - Blu-ray (1978)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  P.J. Soles
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Carpenter's highly influential modern horror/suspense film set the trend for two decades of re-makes and sequels. Six-year-old Michael Myers is confined to an insane asylum after stabbing his sexually active teenage sister to death on Halloween night 1963. Exactly fifteen years later Michael ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,355 member
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Jamie Lee Curtis facts

5 most recent films

You Again - 3.0 stars
Beverly Hills Chihuahua - 3.5 stars
Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film - 3.0 stars
Christmas With The Kranks - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Fish Called Wanda - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Halloween - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Trading Places - 3.5 stars
Halloween - 3.5 stars
A Fish Called Wanda - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Love Letters - 2.5 stars
Grandview U.S.A. - 3.0 stars
Charlie's Angels - Series 3 - 3.5 stars
Terror Train - 2.0 stars
Prom Night - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jaclyn Smith - 7 times - show films
Dean Martin - 7 times - show films
Cheryl Ladd - 7 times - show films
Kate Jackson - 7 times - show films
Farrah Fawcett - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Carpenter - 9 times - show films
Bob Kelljan - 7 times - show films
Steve Miner - 5 times - show films
Rick Rosenthal - 5 times - show films
John Landis - 4 times - show films